Hard Design: Search Autocomplete (Google)
What is 'query normalization' in the context of building autocomplete frequency data?
— Tests your understanding of this concept.
Answer Options
A Converting queries to binary format
B Standardizing queries (lowercase, remove punctuation, trim spaces) before counting frequency
C Normalizing query frequency scores to 0-1 range
D Removing stop words from queries
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